Most people don’t realise that the Kentico repeater web part can be nested to satisfy complex requirements. In his latest Tips and Tricks, Matt takes us through what this means and how it works.

Make the FCKEditor Prettier and More User-Friendly In Kentico.

Every now and then, we want to allow users to input rich text but want to keep the data simple, and want to provide only a small selection of buttons. eg. bold, italic, and indent.

This is something that can easily be done very easily by editing the fckconfig.js file. The following steps will create a new toolbar set named “Simple”, which will include only 5 basic buttons.

Several people forwarded questions about Kentico repeaters after viewing the first partner webinar given by Petr, so it made sense for the Tips and Tricks this month to answer at least some of these.

A repeater is essentially nothing more than a loop. It loops through a group of items, repeatedly applying a transformation to each. However, if you dig a little deeper, you’ll find that the Repeater is one of the real strengths of Kentico.

Given the appropriate queries and transformations for a given document type, a user with little or no programming experience can construct pages on the fly using repeaters, choosing not only what is displayed, but how it is displayed, when it is will be displayed, and to whom it will be displayed.